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... Knowledge of Good and Evil , No Monopoly of Wit or Invention , Truth , The Good Yeoman , The True Gentleman , Mr. George Herbert , • From the " Complete Angler , " Applying the Heart unto Wisdom , Care for the Mind , Execution of ...
... Knowledge of Good and Evil , No Monopoly of Wit or Invention , Truth , The Good Yeoman , The True Gentleman , Mr. George Herbert , • From the " Complete Angler , " Applying the Heart unto Wisdom , Care for the Mind , Execution of ...
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... knowledge of the king , which would undoubtedly if he had intended that thing , have appointed that butcherly office to some other than his own born brother . LORD BERNERS . LORD BERNERS , Chancellor of the Exchequer under Henry VIII ...
... knowledge of the king , which would undoubtedly if he had intended that thing , have appointed that butcherly office to some other than his own born brother . LORD BERNERS . LORD BERNERS , Chancellor of the Exchequer under Henry VIII ...
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... knowledge , and no knowledge to be so high or heavenly as to be acquainted with the stars , and so gave themselves to astronomy ; others persuading themselves to be demi - gods , if they knew the causes of things , became natural and ...
... knowledge , and no knowledge to be so high or heavenly as to be acquainted with the stars , and so gave themselves to astronomy ; others persuading themselves to be demi - gods , if they knew the causes of things , became natural and ...
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... knowledge , they that best breed it deserve the best com- mendation . The philosopher , therefore , and the historian , are they which should win the goal , the one by precept the other by example ; but both , not having both , do both ...
... knowledge , they that best breed it deserve the best com- mendation . The philosopher , therefore , and the historian , are they which should win the goal , the one by precept the other by example ; but both , not having both , do both ...
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... knowledge ; but the same man , as soon as he might see those beasts well painted , or that house well in model , should straightway grow , without need of any description , to a judicial comprehending of them ; so no doubt the ...
... knowledge ; but the same man , as soon as he might see those beasts well painted , or that house well in model , should straightway grow , without need of any description , to a judicial comprehending of them ; so no doubt the ...
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Էջ 73 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Էջ 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Էջ 80 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Էջ 74 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Էջ 66 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Էջ 77 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Էջ 73 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Էջ 66 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts ; it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Էջ 45 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Էջ 38 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...